Hon. John Francis Graff and Martha Greer Stewart

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Husband Hon. John Francis Graff ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Hon. J. Frank Graff 3
           Born: 12 Aug 1857 - Worthington, Armstrong Co, PA 1 2 3
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           Died: 6 Jun 1918 - Worthington, Armstrong Co, PA 4
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         Father: Peter Graff (1808-1890) 1 5 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Susannah Lobingier (      -      ) 9

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       Marriage: 1 Jun 1904 - Stewart Station, Westmoreland Co, PA 4 10

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   Other Spouse: Carrie Louise Brown (      -1902) 2 4 10 - 27 Dec 1881 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 2 4 10

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Wife Martha Greer Stewart ^{4 10 11 12}

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           Born: 11 Dec 1876 11
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         Father: David S. Stewart (1829-1903) 12 13 14
         Mother: Mary Greer Shaw (1841-      ) 12 15

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Children

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1 M Grier Stewart Graff ^{4 10}

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2 M Smith Stewart Graff ^{4 10}

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. John Francis Graff

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He attended the public schools at Worthington, Pennsylvania, prepared for college at Steven's Hall, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and then entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, where he was graduated in 1879.
Upon entering business life became manager of the company store connected with the Buffalo Woolen Mills, near Worthington, Pennsylvania. After ten years' service as superintendent he became a partner in the concern. He had numerous interests, in that locality and elsewhere, being a stockholder in the Scott-Graff Lumber Company of Duluth, Minnesota, a director of the Merchants' National Bank of Kittanning, Armstrong County, president of the Althorn Sand Company and director of the P. McGraw Wool Company, both of Pittsburgh, a stockholder in the Safe Deposit Trust Company of Pittsburgh, a stockholder in the First National Bank of Parker, Pennsylvania, a stockholder in the Kittanning Telephone Company, and a stockholder in the First National Bank of Duluth, Minnesota. He was a well-known member of the Republican party, and held local and State offices, being school director at Worthington, justice of the peace, and member of the General Assembly, to whose lower house he was elected in 1900, continuing to serve until 1904, and in 1912 he was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, for four years. He was an elector when Roosevelt was chosen president.
He and his family were members of the Lutheran Church, in which he was a prominent worker, serving twenty-one years as elder and for the same length of time as superintendent of the Sunday school, succeeding his father in the latter incumbency. He was treasurer of the Armstrong County Sunday School Association. Mr. Graff was a high Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and was also a member of the Elks, Odd Fellows and Royal Arcanum.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 16.

2 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 76.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 329, 412.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 17.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 711.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 328.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 141.

8 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 70.

9 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 13.

10 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 329.

11 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 411.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 146.

13 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 468.

14 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 210, 410.

15 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 210, 411.